| 1847 - 608 pagina’s
...Immensity, and the brains of it became the Clouds. What a Hyper-Brobdignagian business ! Untrained Thought, great, giant-like, enormous, to be tamed...as well as bodily, these men are our progenitors." Most true ; but the " light, graceful Greek Pagans," are also our spiritual progenitors — and the... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 520 pagina’s
...the great blue vault of Immensity, and the brains of it became the Clouds. What a Hyper-Brobdignagian business ! Untamed Thought, great, giantlike, enormous...Ash-tree of Existence, has its roots deep -down in the kingdoms of Hela or Death ; its trunk reaches up heaven-high. spreads its boughs over the whole Universe... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1841 - 408 pagina’s
...the great blue vault of Immensity, and the brains of it became the Clouds. What a Hyper-Brobdignagian business ! Untamed Thought, great, giantlike, enormous;...Ash-tree of Existence, has its roots deep down in the kingdoms of Hela or Death; its trunk reaches up heaven-high, spreads its boughs over the whole Universe... | |
| 1849 - 600 pagina’s
...thereof descending like donkey's ears down to his heels ! In stories like these Mr. Carlyle can see " Untamed Thought, great, giantlike, enormous — to...godlike, and stronger than gianthood, of the Shakspeares and Goethes." Taking the same friendly spirit of interpretation along with him everywhere, it of course... | |
| 1847 - 606 pagina’s
...Immensity, and the brains of it became the Clouds. What a Hyper-Brobdignagian business ! Untrained Thought, great, giant-like, enormous, to be tamed...as well as bodily, these men are our progenitors." Most true ; but the " light, graceful Greek Pagans," are also our spiritual progenitors — and the... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1849 - 260 pagina’s
...the great blua vault of Immensity, and the brains of it became the Clouds. What a Hyper-Brobdignagian business! Untamed Thought, great, giantlike, enormous...and stronger than gianthood, of the Shakspeares, the Goethes!—Spiritually as well as bodily these men are our progenitors. I like, too, that representation... | |
| 1849 - 602 pagina’s
...thereof descending like donkey's ears down to his heels ! In stories like these Mr. Carlyle can see " lest the genius of the place ! If through the air a zephyr more serene Win to the brow, 'tis and Goethes." Taking the same friendly spirit of interpretation along with him everywhere, it of course... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 238 pagina’s
...the great blue vault of Immensity, and the brains of it became the Clouds. What a Hyper-Brobdignagian business! Untamed Thought, great, giantlike, enormous...and stronger than gianthood, of the Shakspeares, the Goethes!—Spiritually as well as bodily these men are our progenitors. I like, too, that representation... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 412 pagina’s
...the great blue vault of Immensity, and the brains of it became the Clouds. What a Hyper-Brobdignagian business ! Untamed Thought, great, giantlike, enormous;...Ash-tree of Existence, has its roots deep -down in the kingdoms ofHela or Death ; its trunk reaches up heaven-high, spreads its boughs over the whole Universe... | |
| James Challen - 1859 - 184 pagina’s
...District of Pennsylvania. STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON & CO. PHILADELPHIA, C. SHEUMAN I SON, PHISTEKS. I LIKE, too, that representation they have of the...life is figured by them as a tree. Igdrasil— the Ash Tree of Existence — has its roots down in the kingdoms of Hela, or death : its trunk reaches... | |
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